Summary
Cascade Middle School is a grades 6–8 school serving 375 students in Eugene, Oregon, part of Bethel School District 52. In 2025–26, it ranks 285th of 371 Oregon middle schools — 23rd percentile, 1 star — within a district ranked 121st of 141 (14th percentile, 1 star). Its longer trajectory matters: the school sat at the 56th–64th percentile with 3 stars from 2016–17 through 2018–19, fell to the 9th–11th percentile in 2021–22 through 2023–24, then recovered modestly to 19th percentile in 2024–25 and 23rd in 2025–26.
In 2025–26, all-grade proficiency was 33.1% in English language arts — essentially the district's 32.8% but 10.7 points below Oregon's 43.8% — 18.1% in math (district 20.2%, state 32.9%), and 14.2% in science (district 17.4%, state 30.6%). Grade-level results are uneven: 7th grade is the clearest pressure point, with ELA at 26.3% and math at 12.2%, both well below district and state. By contrast, 8th-grade math (26.4%) is the school's strongest math result, and 6th-grade ELA (35.6%) is slightly above the district.
Context matters. In 2024–25, 90.93% of students were eligible for free/reduced lunch, up from 64.64% the prior year, and chronic absenteeism was 34.8%, above the district (30.8%) and state (33.5%). Per-student spending was $18,606, less than same-district Shasta Middle School and lower than nearby Eugene School District 4J schools, with a student-teacher ratio of 18.1. Compared with Shasta, results are mixed: Cascade trails in 7th-grade ELA and math but leads in 6th- and 8th-grade math. Against most 4J middle schools, it is substantially lower in all three subjects. Subgroup effectiveness varies: special education students reached the 59th–70th percentile in some recent years, while female and multi-racial students ranked in the low single digits to low teens.
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